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Dr. Gerard Turley

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Biography

After working for a time as a foreign exchange trader and economist, Gerard Turley joined the academic world at NUI Galway in 1990 and since then has lectured in Ireland, Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, Central Asia and the United States where in 2009 he taught at the University of California, Berkeley. As for his educational qualifications, a B.A. and a M.A. from NUI Galway (or University College Galway as it was then) was later followed by a PhD from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, UK. He teaches economics to both undergraduate students and postgraduates of the J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics, as well as organising internships for business and economics students. He has worked on numerous international projects, funded by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, EC EuropeAid, Adam Smith Institute, UK Department for International Development and the George Soros’ Open Society Foundations. His research interests include transition economics and local public finance. Currently he is the Director of the Bachelor of Commerce programme at NUI Galway.

Selected Publications:‘Financing Local
Government in the Twenty-First Century: Local Government Revenues in EU Member
States, 2000-2014’ in Handbook
on International Local Government, Routledge, 2017, forthcoming (with Stephen McNena)An Analysis of Local Public Finances and the
2014 Local Government Reforms’, The
Economic and Social Review, 47 (2), 2016 (with Stephen McNena)

A Framework to Measure the Financial Performance of Local Governments, Local Government Studies, 2015 (with Geraldine Robbins and Stephen McNena)

A Needs and Resources Assessment of Fiscal Equalisation in the Irish Local Government System, The Economic and Social Review, 2015 (with Darragh Flannery and Stephen McNena)

Economic Transformation: From Central Palling to Market Economy, International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behaviourial Sciences, Elsevier, 2015

From Boom to Bust?
The Financial Performance of City and County Councils in Ireland, Administration, 62 (1), 2014 (with
Geraldine Robbins and Stephen McNena)

The
Impact of the Economic Boom and Bust on Local Government Finances in Ireland’, Administration, 61 (2), 2013 (with
Darragh Flannery)

Handbook of the Economics and Political Economy of Transition, Routledge, 2013 (editor, with Paul Hare)

Peer Reviewed Journals

Year

Publication

(2016)

'An Analysis of Local Public Finances and the 2014 Local Government Reforms'
Gerard Turley, Stephen McNena (2016) 'An Analysis of Local Public Finances and the 2014 Local Government Reforms'. The Economic And Social Review, 47 (2):299-326 [Details]

'Froom boom to bust? The financial performance of city and county councils'
Gerard Turley, Geraldine Robbins and Stephen McNena (2014) 'Froom boom to bust? The financial performance of city and county councils'. Administration, 62 (1):119-151 [ARAN Link] [Details]

(2013)

'The impact of the economic boom and bust on local government budgets in ireland'
Gerard Turley and Darragh Flannery (2013) 'The impact of the economic boom and bust on local government budgets in ireland'. Administration, 61 (2):33-56 [ARAN Link] [Details]

Transition, Taxation and the State. Development and Transition Series.
Turley, Gerard (2006) Transition, Taxation and the State. Development and Transition Series. Ashgate
[Details]

Book Chapters

Year

Publication

(2017)

'Financing Local Government in the Twenty-First Century: Local Government Revenues in EU Member States, 2000 – 2014'
Turley, Gerard; McNena, Stephen (2017) 'Financing Local Government in the Twenty-First Century: Local Government Revenues in EU Member States, 2000 – 2014' In: Handbook of International Local Government. London: Routledge.
[Details]

(2013)

'Transition Economies: The First Two Decades'
Gerard Turley (2013) 'Transition Economies: The First Two Decades' In: Handbook of the Economics and Political Economy of Tansition. UK: Routledge.
[Details]

(2013)

'Introduction to the Handbook'
Paul Hare and Gerard Turley (2013) 'Introduction to the Handbook' In: Handbook of the Economics and Political Economy of Transition. UK: Routledge.
[Details]

'Tax, Transition and the State: The Case of Russia In Robert McGee (ed) (2008) Taxation and Public Finance in Transition and Developing Economies'
Turley, Gerard (2008) 'Tax, Transition and the State: The Case of Russia In Robert McGee (ed) (2008) Taxation and Public Finance in Transition and Developing Economies' In: Springer.
[Details]

(2002)

'Self-Employment Support in Urban Areas of Moscow's oblast In Active Labour Market Policies in Russia: A European Union Approach'
Turley, Gerard (with Larisa Makhova) (2002) 'Self-Employment Support in Urban Areas of Moscow's oblast In Active Labour Market Policies in Russia: A European Union Approach' In: European Union TACIS Programme.
[Details]